Re: [Fink-devel] Getting patches back "upstream"

2002-05-02 Thread Karin Kosina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ### Max Horn [Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:57:58PM +0200] > >The first thing I have noticed is that Fink uses its own ltconfig and > >ltmain.sh. > > Note that these are for libtool 1.3.5, which is not anymore being > developed. Thanks for pointing that

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting patches back "upstream"

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Cuaz
Le jeudi 2 mai 2002, à 10:21 AM, Karin Kosina a écrit : > Thanks for pointing that out. I know, but most software still uses > libtool 1.3.x -- which brings me to the question, does any of you know > if libtool 1.4 is Mac OS X friendly? :) No, there at least 3 problems, see (as Dave alr

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting patches back "upstream"

2002-05-02 Thread Karin Kosina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ### Sylvain Cuaz [Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:38:45AM +0200] > No, there at least 3 problems, see (as Dave already told you ;-) > http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/libtool.php Oh, I'm sorry. I thought the website only talked about the 1.3.x

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems compiling graphviz

2002-05-02 Thread Jeremy Higgs
On 1/5/02 4:28 PM, "Jeremy Higgs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/4/02 9:58 PM, "Ben Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At 9:07 PM +1000 4/30/02, Jeremy Higgs wrote: >>> Hi everyone! >>> >>> I'm trying to package graphviz, and I'm getting the following error: >>> >>> cc -dynamiclib -fla

Re: [Fink-devel] libungif won't replace giflib because of imlib-shlibs dependency

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Can you check to see if you have the file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/libungif-4.1.0b1-3.info on your system? If you do, please remove it and try again. -- Dave ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "David R. Morrison" wrote: > > > +2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all > > +Fink users are urged to update the passwd package in their Fink > > +installations as follows: > > + Use "fink selfupdate-cvs", to update you

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
On second thought, it might actually be possible for users without DevTools to follow the "fink rebuild passwd" instructions. cc and make aren't run in this case: the only commands invoked by the CompileScript and InstallScript are sed, mkdir, and install. Shouldn't those already be present, eve

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 21:19 Uhr -0400 01.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >In a discussion on #fink about the passwd problem, it was suggested that >we put an announcement about the problem in the News section on Fink's >homepage. Appended below is a diff file for the source of that page, >which would contain the

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-created user problem on macosxhints

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 15:43 Uhr -0700 01.05.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >At 11:35 PM +0200 5/1/02, Max Horn wrote: >>At 3:37 Uhr -0700 30.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >>>At 10:25 AM +0200 4/30/02, Bernd Kuemmerlen wrote: As this has been discussed on this list last week, maybe someone with a little bit more ins

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 6:55 Uhr -0400 02.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "David R. Morrison" wrote: >> >> > +2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all >> > +Fink users are urged to update the passwd package in their Fink >> > +install

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-created user problem on macosxhints

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Hines
At 1:22 PM +0200 5/2/02, Max Horn wrote: > >>At least a file release or news item of ONLY passwd. (you don't >>have to release an entire fink update!) But nothing was posted. No >>news. No "Warning to fink users". > >Yes, there probably should have been some warnings. A pity nobody >thought of

[Fink-devel] link problems

2002-05-02 Thread Justin Hallett
how can a build link the same two libs in two different link cmds and one fail but the other doesn't?? cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../build -I../lib -I../rpmdb -I../rpmio -I../popt -I../misc -I/sw/include -I../misc -I/sw/include -no-cpp-precomp -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -Wpoi

[Fink-devel] Provides

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
A few days ago I put splitoff versions of several packages into unstable, including some packages which conflict with each other: giflib vs. libungif, freetype vs. freetype-hinting, and imagemagick vs. imagemagick-nox. A few users reported trouble to me, from which I learned a few things: 1) Al

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
So what about this now? Should we post it like I suggested, or should yet another text be used? Or will we not post anything again? Max -- --- Max Horn Software Developer email: phone: (+49) 6151-494890 __

Re: [Fink-devel] libungif won't replace giflib because of imlib-shlibs dependency

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
OK, in that case, you can solve your problem by selecting "giflib" instead of "libungif" when you are given a choice. The problem is, you already have giflib-bin installed, and you shouldn't really have been given a choice to make. What you chose conflicts with something already installed. We'l

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
I think it is worth putting up the notice, and I like your wording. I think we can take silence as assent, from the rest of the folks. I'll make the addition later this evening, unless you'd rather do it yourself. -- Dave ___ Have

Re: [Fink-devel] link problems

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 9:45 Uhr -0600 02.05.2002, Justin Hallett wrote: >how can a build link the same two libs in two different link cmds and one >fail but the other doesn't?? Because different options are used. E.g. the second command uses "-multiply_defined suppress" but the first doesn't. Cheers, Max -- ---

Re: [Fink-devel] link problems

2002-05-02 Thread Justin Hallett
I manually did that to try it...even with out it I can exactly the same. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Because different options are used. E.g. the second command uses >"-multiply_defined suppress" but the first doesn't. ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., Justin F. Hallett - Systems Analy

Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:44 PM +0200 5/2/02, Max Horn wrote: >So what about this now? Should we post it like I suggested, or >should yet another text be used? Or will we not post anything again? > Looks good to me, post away. -Ben -- http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/ _

[Fink-devel] prdownloads.sourceforge.net to unc.dl.sourceforge.net

2002-05-02 Thread Incabulos
unless there's going to be a new mirroring setup to deal with sourceforge's mirroring, the fink info files need to have unc.dl.sourceforge.net (with the possibility of others?) for any download that was at prdownloads.sorceforge.net. -joe _

Re: [Fink-devel] prdownloads.sourceforge.net to unc.dl.sourceforge.net

2002-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Incabulos wrote: > unless there's going to be a new mirroring setup to deal with > sourceforge's mirroring, the fink info files need to have > unc.dl.sourceforge.net (with the possibility of others?) for any > download that was at prdownloads.sorceforge.net. "Was" at prdownlo

Re: [Fink-devel] prdownloads.sourceforge.net tounc.dl.sourceforge.net

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:41 PM -0400 5/2/02, Chris Devers wrote: > > >http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xinvaders3d/xinvaders3d-1.3.6.src.tar.gz > >So, *maybe* the download url can add /\?use_mirror=(unc|telia|belnet)/ [or >something to that effect] as needed, based on whatever the user may set >for a geographic pr